of health through that. >> trace: of course, the senator says he's experiencing mild symptoms. he said feels like a sinus infection and we wish him well with the white house. well that is "the story" of monday, august 2, 2021. as always, the story goes on. we'll see you back here tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. "your world" starts right now. >> a key briefing from the white house. covid response team getting underway. this amid a flurry of new rules and new concerns and a new poll showing that americans are losing faith that this crisis is not going away any time soon. peter doocy has more. but first a covid visit at the southern border. officials showing a border crisis is a health crisis. i'm charles payne in nor neil cavuto, this is "your world."

it's a world of hurt on the front lines to keep our border secure. i talked with two key officials on cavuto live. >> turning a blind eye to it when we have a real situation down here. >> it's astronomical, the number of people and some of them are coughing, they're obviously sick. there's no doubt. we protect ourselves. we wear our face covering, we wear our gloves. we do our best so we can continue helping others. if we get sick, we're out of the game. >> so with the surge intensifying, what is the biden administration saying? to griff jenkins at the white house with the latest. griff? >> charles, good afternoon. just moments ago in the press

briefing that is still underway right now, peter doocy pressing jen psaki about the covid part of the border crisis. here's what happened. watch. >> the public health at the border is the president concerned that migrants that are coming in in great numbers are not being tested for covid as the first part of contact with border patrol? >> well, let me give you a little bit of an understanding of what actually happens when people come across the border. first, as katie's earlier question, there's been no change in title 42. so families and single adults are expelled when apprehended at the southern border. that's step one. those that can't be expelled are often placed and goes to your question in alternative detention programs while their cases are being reviewed. cbp provides migrants with pp when they're taken into custody and they're required to keep

masks on at all times. the other protocol, if anybody has signs of illness, they're referred to local health systems for appropriate testing and treatment. that is our process. >> charles, let us show you this exclusive folks drone footage showing you the largest group of migrants that we've ever seen, estimated at 1,000 or more. they don't want to broadcast the numbers that we have exclusively gotten in the last 24 hours in that very area. they have encountered 3,002 migrants a 600% increase from last year. the weekend total, that was more than 8,000. you can see here, the rgv chief tweeting this over the weekend. the days of line watch operations are few and far between. last week's apprehensions are at 21,000 as agents continue to do

their best. charles, as to revealing tweet because it's a bit of an admission that the agents now because of the number of migrants are having to process and transport, they're not able to personal for their duty, which is being on the line and protecting our border. charles? >> griff, thank you very much. let's get to border patrol union president brandon judd. brandon, it's not getting better from where you stand. sounds like according to this, in some parts of our border, your folks can't do their primary job anymore. >> no, we can't. the other night i was patrolling. we didn't have enough people out there to properly effectuate the arrest that we needed to make. let me go back and fact check jen psaki first off. she says that we can't deport -- send people back under title 42. that's not true. that is a choice that this administration is making. has nothing to do with they can't do something. what she doesn't do is she's

telling you -- only giving you part truths. she's not telling you the number of people that are being released into the communities under the catch and release program. that is an astronomical number. nearly 40%. when you look at this month, the month of july, we'll exceed 200,000 apprehensions in the month of july. 40% of those people were released into the united states to spread throughout our communities, a lot of whom could have covid but we don't know because we don't test them. that is a huge problem. you have the problem with the covid-19 spread, you also have the problem of we just don't have -- we can't put enough agents on the line to protect the border, this is a huge crisis and gets worse day by day. >> i want to remind the audience, that is a live shot, folks, mission texas. that is a whole lot of people. the border patrol certainly overwhelmed. we know coming into this. brandon, you mentioned the numbers, over 200,000 in july.

for the fiscal year we're past one million. what about the unaccompanied children? i read a statistic, 27% of unaccompanied children have tested positive for covid. could the number be that high? >> it is. that's absolutely true. it well over 20% that are testing positive for covid. again, that is what is coming across our border. that's what the american public needs to know. the frustration is why isn't this administration being perfectly honest with the american public? the answer has to be because they don't want the people to know where their faults are. how they're failing at the border and they're failing very bad. >> yeah. sticking their head in the sand strategy hasn't worked. when jen psaki said that hey, the point of contact they're tested, they have masks on. that sounds good in the perfect

world. but this is an imperfect world. many folks don't know they have it, don't always have symptoms. i've seen many visuals where people are not wearing masks so this world that she describes doesn't exist down there, brandon. >> no, it doesn't. again, that's what is so frustrating to border patrol agents. all we want is an honest conversation out there for the american public. we want them to form their opinions based upon facts, based upon the truths, this white house isn't giving them that. so again, near trying to misdirect, trying to mislead the public saying there's nothing to see here. in reality, we're facing the worst crisis we have ever seen in my 24-year career. it's getting worse. the numbers continue to go up and there's nothing in place. they're doing nothing about this. they continue to try to misdirect and mislead the american public. >> by the way, i read also, 87

agents in two texas sectors have come down with covid-19. how bad has it gotten for your people? >> the first thing that we face. everybody that we take into custody we have to assume that has covid. we have had agents that have died due to covid exposure. yes, we have over 80 of our agents -- another 80 people that we have to take out of the field that can't be patrolling because we're being overwhelmed and the cartels are allowed to make billions of dollars in trans partying these illegals that have covid and other diseases coming into the united states. >> we do this story and it feels like you're out there by yourself trying to do a job that is so overwhelming. we appreciate you coming on. thanks so much. now over the weekend, folks, three buses of migrants were dropped off in laredo, texas.

this after the department of homeland security say would stop 16edding them there because of covid concerned. pete is the major of laredo. he joins us. we called dhs on this story and yet to hear back. mayor, your town sued the biden administration. in fact, you sued dhs, mayorkas, cbp. primarily over a fear that covid was going to be an issue. now of course, it is an issue. where does everything stand right now? >> well, the lawyers were visiting, trying to negotiate this. we had agreed on a ten-day period. that ended friday and then saturday. i get that call from the border patrol chief saying they're starting a again. the bussing. our situation is we get the overflow from the rgv, the rio grande valley anniversary, which is 150 miles southeast of

laredo. they're so overwhelmed they're sending buses of migrants. these migrants are not tested, a high probability that they have covid. the last group or two that we received, they were coming close to 40% positive on covid. of course, that forced us to quarantine the ngo here locally. of course, the issue that we're facing now is that we have extremely limited bed capacity in our hospitals. really pitting our residents with the migrants. very insensitive and cruel to create these people. sick people are now competing for beds. the last five or six weeks, we only had less than five beds available in our we're basicall

asking the federal government, you have a chance. you can take them to another city or place where they can treat the migrants. we don't have the space. >> is the population around 250,000 in your town? >> yeah a little over that. i'd say 280,000. >> one icu bed in a town that size. one bed left. that was it. >> that was it. lasted two or three days. >> well, you filed the lawsuit. obviously the federal government understands how much -- this is before it go to this degree a few weeks ago. you must have seen it coming. here comes the buses. where are you putting these people? i saw where you had the holding shelter.

that seemed small to handle the influx that you're having to deal with right now. >> yeah, even the holding institute, ngo, it's ill equipped. there's really go filtration system, ventilation system. they're making do. thanks goodness, that's your mission to take people in. but going back to the lawsuit. tonight, city council is meeting. city council will make a decision as to how best to proceed with the lawsuit. we're asking for relief to put a halt to the buses. so by tomorrow morning, we should have a response from our city, a formal response and go before a federal judge and see what the arrangement will be. if there's any, i doubt it. maybe the judge will make a decision halting the buses until we get capacity in our hospitals. >> mayor, best of luck to you.

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>> charles: as protests against covid restrictions ramp up overseas, are new restrictions coming here in the white house covid response team set to hold a press conference any moment. peter doocy has the latest. peter? >> when that briefing begins, we expect to hear publicly what the president spoke about privately today. we just saw this posting on his twitter account this morning. i met with members of my co covid-19 response team. as we continue to fight the delta variant, we know the best way to fight the delta variant is to get vaccinated, find a vaccine near you at vaccines.gov. that tweet came accompanied with a photo of the president and other advisers listening to dr. anthony fauci who said this

weekend what the white house has been trying to say, they don't think they're going to need to go back to the lockdowns like we had last year. but they are warning it is a very grave situation with the delta variant, particularly for unvaccinated people. as for what we can expect to hear, the president says we should in all likelihood expect there to be more restrictions. we know that the department of education's guidance that went out today detailed more about the kind of social distancing and mask wearing that they want in k-12 schools. we don't have further specifics as pretty much everybody on campus, inside and a lot of outside now, charles, are wearing masks again regardless of vaccination status. more for you as we get it, charles. >> charles: thanks, peter. i want to get to what my next guest thinks of this. nyu langone associate professor, dr. raj. doctor, obviously it's a

complicated situation. from what i read over the weekend, the white house is upset with the cdc for fanning flames, for maybe laying it on too thick. i know it's delicate. where do you see this going and how should the communication for this being going along? >> charles, just what you said. it's very complicated because it's an evolving situation. you know, it's sort of easy to blame the cdc. when new information comes to light, we feel the responsibility to share. that's where we're at. we learned things last week that we didn't know before about the delta variant. namely that it is very contagious even in vaccinated people. that they have a very high number of virus particles in their nose but they can easily transmit it. this is pretty startling news and has implications as to how we're interacting even if we're

vaccinated and it has implications for large numbers of our population that have not been vaccinated. this is all going to affect policy. the fact that number 1, even though you're vaccinated, you can have what the they're calling break through infections. much less likely. but it's possible. what is more worrisome, that you can transmit it to others. when we're talking about schools, k-12 and know the vaccine has not been approved for children under 12 yet. so they remain vulnerable to get infected. so that's why they should wear a mask. we thought this would be over by now. every week we get new information. as the science has changed, we'll get new information. so we have to follow that advice. >> charles: right. you know, everyone now, every time this flairs up, we all put on our hats, right? and try to understand the charts

and the trends. you can see over in india, in the u.k. where the delta variant originated they had this spike a few weeks before we did. looks like good news is that they're starting to come down rather rapidly. is there something specific that was done over there that you think we should be doing here? >> that's a great question. i don't think we have the answer to that, why things are going so well. it's wonderful news, particularly in india where resources are a huge issue. it's hopeful in the sense that even though that they had wide, widespread delta variants and really the likelihood is it was the delta variant, now the numbers are decreasing dramatically as well. so why that is, it's not entirely clear to me. are things going to be different in different countries, different populations, different percentages of elderly people,

different percentages of people with medical issues, it's hard to say. >> charles: dr. raj, obviously we're talking messaging and next month is obviously very critical in a sense that many hope schools will be open. i don't -- for some parents, the mask issue is a very important issue as well. if we push that back, we've seen a number of private companies push back their reopenings to october, later in the year. is it too soon to know how many schools might possibly be interrupted or openings delayed? >> well, i think everyone is pretty much on the same page when it comes to schools and that they need to open on time. yes, there's a risk of covid. the risk of missing an educational experience and that social experience for children, i think we all feel at this point a year has been too much and they lost too much. it is worth that risk of the covid to get them back in

school. in terms of what precautions that they will be taking in the school, in terms of how they're spaced, wearing masks, whether that is indoors and outdoors, still questions that remain to be answered. i think at this point -- i'm a parent myself and feel that schools should open on time. >> charles: doctor, looks like all of this attention, you know, whether it's finger pointing, good news, bad news, whatever it is, all of this increase in tension has moved the needle. we're seeing an increase in the last couple days of vaccinations. what is the number? initially the biden administration had a number around 70% as sort of a safe level. would that be sort of a defactor herd immunity and are you confident that we can reach it? >> well, am i confident? i'm not sure given the realization that we're seeing

among people in this country. 70% is too low. we have to get higher than that. a lot of people are still not getting vaccinated for a variety of reasons. that's the only way to handle this. as people remain unvaccinated, that's how the variants emerge. we'll have delta but we'll have more. if there's more virus circulating, it has a better chance of mutating. that's the only thing that we can do to get to the higher level. >> charles: president biden in fact just tweeting moments ago about this. folks, we've officially reached our goal of 70% of adults receiving one dose of the vaccine. incredible progress. if you haven't, get vaccinated. the tone sounds better. real quick before i let you go. the second dose, is it just laziness? is it a false sense of confidence? what is the best way to go about

getting folks to get the second dose? i've scheduled for mine in a couple weeks. i plan on making it but i don't think about it every day. >> i'm glad you asked that it's extremely important to get the second dose. you're not protected as nearly as much with one dose. now we're talking about maybe a third dose. so 100% the second dose is very necessary. one is not enough. go for the second. >> i got you. okay. doctor's officers. dr. raj, thanks so much. the covid fears are spiking and a new number of americans, the optimism. when you see how much this thing has plunged. lee carter on whether the president and his party should be worrying. a infrastructure bill now making its way through the halls of congress. should this have a chance of passing? we did it again.

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>> charles: call it a $1 trillion page turner. the infrastructure ball making its round in capitol hill. could it lead to another round of more spending in hillary vaughn on the hill with the latest. hillary? >> hi, charles. there could be one less republican vote in the senate for this bipartisan infrastructure bill. not because they don't support it or they're losing support but because senator lindsey graham has tested positive for covid-19 even though he got the vaccine. now he has to quarantine. putting the fate of the bipartisan infrastructure package on shaky ground with one

less republican lawmaker to support it. graham said this in a statement. "i started having flu-like symptoms saturday night and went to the doctor. i feel like i have a sinus infection and will be quarantining ten days. chuck schumer wants a vote by thursday. graham will not be able to show up to vote. there could be more trouble for the bill, a source telling fox news, graham was with senator joe manchin and other lawmakers on manchin's house vote over the weekend. manchin's office says he's following cdc protocol and he's been vaccinated. he's another critical democrat for the package. if the deal has the votes to get through the senate, the fate in the hands of the house is uncertain. congress woman alexandria ocasio-cortez says they have to see the $3 trillion

reconciliation bill cross the finish line before she will vote for the infrastructure deal. democrats have the votes to oh bose this bipartisan infrastructure deal if the senate cannot get reconciliation through. right now democrats and republicans are working out how many amendments to accept and add on and consider for this bill. chuck schumer wants to rush the clock and get this deal done. but senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and other republicans want to bide their time. he wants to give his members a chance to change and amend the bill if they want. charles? >> charles: well, d.c. keeps spending and you keep paying. gas prices are rising over the weekend. this comes as clorox and kraft heinz set to report on high price spikes are impacting their bottom line. my next guest says all of this spending is not helping. dan, we've seen it with a lot of these other consumer staple

companieses that reported their earnings. they said we're raising our prices. they're having no choice an consumers will have no choice but to pay them, won't they? >> that's exactly true, charles. because each of these corporations need to protect their bottom line. right? they have to protect their shareholders. so they are not going to absorb the price increases that are coming to them as far as the products that they need without passing it on to ultimately the consumer. so all signs point to that inflation is here to stay for a while and will continue to rise. >> of course, everywhere you look, consumers are bracing for run-away inflation the next year. let's talk about how this deal may be held up and your thoughts on the $3.5 trillion spending bill being rammed through as a

condition of this infrastructure bill going through. >> that is absolutely crazy, charles. i think that i could make an argument that the $1 trillion is an inflated number. of course, we need infrastructure. we have things that are crumbling all over the country. so certainly we need to do some spending. to have that be an excuse to go all the way up to an $3.5 trillion is insanity. let me tell you why nobody is really getting to excited about it in washington d.c. because there's never been any consequences to all of this spending. the last decade, we've added close to $20 trillion of more debt. what has happened? who has paid that price? no one. therefore, the spending continues literally at this crazy level. i just don't see any end in

sight to it. >> charles: well, you can also argue real quick, dan, that it's a ticking time bomb. once this implodes, how do you stop it? >> well, you know what, charles? people have asked me to say, well, when is the national debt going to be a problem? here's the answer. when it is a problem. nobody actually knows when this is going to blow up. i would have thought years ago that hitting $30 trillion, there's going to be a big problem. now what is the number? 50 trillion? 100 trillion? nobody knows, charles. >> charles: yeah, but i think we're going to find out. thanks very much. by the way, just coming across, the u.s. treasury suspending retiree fund limits. the debt limit is the new crisis. meanwhile, democrats protesting to extend the moratorium on

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they can't find workers. >> charles, there's nine million jobs in america right now. the very last thing we need are americans staying at home collecting benefits. companies have been bending over backwards as you know to try to hire employees, signing bonuses, higher wages, other benefits. they just can't do it because of this left-wing socialist endless continuing jobless benefits. it's very sad. how are earth can we go back to normal if the government won't? this is what happens when your policy platform is influenced by those on twitter demanding action between their therapy sessions and pilates. >> charles: right. marjorie, there was a time last year when we needed this. even you got a kick out of that. because let's face it, the government shut down our economy. they shut it down. so it was on them. but we're open now. we've had this v shape.

president biden bragged a lot about how well the economy is doing. nick mentioned over nine million jobopenings. it was be political suicide for the democrats to do this. but i've heard the whispers what do you think? >> i don't think a lot of people collecting insurance or collecting benefits are doing pilates right now. a lot of them are taking care of the elderly, taking care of children that cannot be vaccinated right now. that's true in my household. we're not finished with the pandemic. i think there's a lot of concerns that we have to look at. now, do we extend benefits? one of the challenges we have right now is that states are administering a lot of the benefits like renters benefits. in the united states, out of 41 states, 26 of them have only distributed less than 10% of that aid. we're having a infrastructure breakdown. how the states are getting money

in the hands of the people that need it. that is contributing to the slow down. >> charles: does that make you confident to do more spending plans if they're sitting on billions of dollars? we're now going to do a infrastructure plan. sit on that. do another plan. sit on that. why are they not distributing this money? >> i agree with you. part of the bipartisan breakdown where we're not having states speak to each other is leading to a break down everywhere. both parties are responsible. we're pointing our energy the wrong direction. we have to have functional software and systems to get aid in the hands of the people that need it. right now that in the hands of the state. >> charles: nick, i think these states know that they sit on this cash and wait for another round of -- so much money is coming, it's not just people that don't have to work anymore but a state like california. they were rewarded for the hand

fists tactics with billions of dollars, this disincentivizes effective governing. i'll give you the last word. >> of course it does, charles. that's what the states are relying on. nobody is against a safety net. we're against a hammock. we don't want that. that's what is at stake. it's not a complicated thing to what marjorie says. it's have simple. we need to make sure that we have incentives for people to work. democrats are removing and eliminating those. >> charles: have to leave it there. wish we had more time. thanks. so is more policing the answer to these crime spikes? what happens if cities can't find the police there to hire? in that covid briefing, we'll have the very latest for you. id, you oughta customize your car insurance with liberty mutual, so you only pay for what you need. oh um, doug can we talk about something other than work, it's the weekend.

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>> major u.s. cities on edge with violent crimes still on the rise. this as portland, oregon, known for the gun violence unit. this defies the city's rising murder rate. where is this heading? retired las vegas police lieutenant, randy sutton joins us now. lieutenant, it's been awhile. it's absolutely remarkable and yet all predictable what we're seeing in these major cities including one where the major

talked about the summer of love not long ago. now it's an unmitigated disaster. how do they fix it? >> there's always one way to fix it, charles. that's to actually let the police be the police. i don't foresee that happening. this new gun unit that is trying to be formed in portland, it's too little too late. they already disbanded the unit last year. now what they're trying to do, trying to reform it. given the dismal backing that the mayor has given the police department there, it's not going to happen. why would these officers put themselves in a position to face even more criticism for joining a unit that is now going to be run by civilians? with all based on race. it's madness, it's not going to

work. the body count will couldn't in portland until the people are smart enough and get rid of the mayor and get rid of the city council. that's the only way it's going to get better. >> charles: it's not just portland. we saw wild scenes in bourbon street in new orleans. what do you make of it? >> here's what's happening across america. criminals, they're predators. they sense weakness. they understand where they can rule. they are ruling the streets now all over america. because the police are being demonized, being dehumanized and being defunded. they're less effective because of laws being put in to effect that directly make it easier for prosecutors to prosecute the police and not the criminals. so you have the perfect storm of massive criminality.

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♪ ♪ >> charles: another briefing by the white house response team wrapping up. fox news own peter doocy with another update from the white house, peter. >> this briefing is happening via zoom with the public health officials who came out to suggest that vaccinated people needed to start wearing masks again without explaining exactly what it is they saw that made them think that. so now come as part of the explanation about why, the cdc director said this. >> the delta variance is hardly contingent spirit to put this in perspective if you get with the alpha variant you can pick 200 r people. if you get sick with the delta variant, we estimate you can infect five other i'm vaccinated

people. more than twice as many as the original strain. >> for that reason, the biden administration officials on this call, including jeffrey zions, plotting private companies like walmart who are requiring employees heading back to work to get vaccinated within a certain amount of time. that is something some democratic leaders have been suggesting, but these officials insist there are no plans to go back to lockdown that would damage the economy. they are going to try to figure out how to live with the delta variance while getting a number of people vaccinated. but regardless of what it looks like next month, most of the country goes back to school, they want every man, woman, child k-12 who steps on a school campus to be wearing a mask regardless of vaccination status, charles. >> charles: peter, thank you very much. with covid cases running america's optimism over the

pandemic it is plunging. a new gallup poll says 40% of the coronavirus situation is getting better. that is down from 89% and it was up in june but does this drop with trouble for the biden administration? lee carter is here to discuss. lee, i think the number that also caught my attention was getting a lot little worse, 45% from 3%. i can't even imagine, you are in the industry. have you ever seen a reversal in one month on any topic to this degree? >> this is a really, really rapid shift in perception. this is the biggest we have seen since november of last year, our peak, i would say, worst month and how people are feeling about it. it hasn't been since january that we had more people to think about where we are going for an optimistic this is a big new

phase of the biden administration to manage the first time since joe biden had taken off and people are concerned as they are right now. but also a dual challenge because people are more concerned but they don't know where to get information. when you look at who people trust to get information, 52% of americans trust the cdc. 37% nih, 37% the fda so a trust gap. people are more concerned, and they don't know where to go or who to trust. then you have people talking over each other. people talking about an increase spread appear they are looking at what that was in a lot of people saying income okay, am i at increased risk because i'm vaccinated? what should i be looking at? so what is not just the biden administration. they are going to have to get a handle on it. >> just moments ago president obama put out a tweet, we have reached our goal of 70,000 adults receiving one dose of the vaccine. it is incredible process but we have further to go and if you

haven't already, let's get vaccinated. let's beat this virus once and for all. there was a real tone, harsh, finger-pointing, comments he was making, not just long ago but apparently they must have realized that was a mistake. and so it feels like they are going back to a gentler touch here. >> i think, yes, they realize it was a mistake in all of the research how to talk to people about the vaccine. it's got to begin with empathy. there is a lot of reasons why people are confused about whether or not the vaccine is right for them. if we want to have a conversation with them, we have to go to them and say, we get your reasons but let's have a conversation why. we cannot talk to people if they are an educated and just a wait-and-see. >> charles: we will wait and see, but i think i said 70,000, 70% so that is a good number for one dose, lee and eye is so much. always, always appreciate your expertise.

this is troubling for the country as well. that will do it for me, neil will be back tomorrow. in the meantime, you can catch me fox business 2:00 p.m. eastern time making money and remember an interesting theory, the market a all extreme high, but this will be a big job support on friday. a lot going on. thank you for watching. in the meantime, buckle up because "the five" starts now. ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello, everyone dana perino, greg gutfeld, jesse watters, katie pavlik, and this is "the five." >> things are going to get worse. if you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven day average has gone up substantially. >> at warring from those with major hypocrites after a weekenn rules,